Terena
of Brazil; Nahuizalco, Pushtan, Indigenous Communities of Texacuango and
Central El Salvador; Izkaloteka, Zuni, O'otham, Xikano of Turtle Island, Abya
Yala North; Yukatek Maya of Mexico and the Maya Pueblos articulated in the CPO:
K'iche, Mam, Kaqchiqel, Ixil, Achi, Q'eqch'i, Akateka Poptí, Q'anjob 'al Chuj,
Sakapulteco; having assembled in COUNCIL in the territories of Txeljub' -
Quetzaltenango, Quiche Aj Q'umaraq, Iximche ' - Chimaltenango upon the occasion
of the International Day of Indigenous
Peoples, we affirm and record the following:

The Original Nations of our continent are
clear that we are currently facing a fourth cycle of plunder under the guise of
a false premise of economic development, where colonial governments and
transnational corporations are robbing our territories without our consent by
imposing projects including mining operations, hydroelectric plants, petroleum
extraction, monoculture agribusinesses, and many more.

We
note with great concern the humanitarian crisis that is being generated in the
northern territories of Abya Yala,
Turtle Island via the criminalization
of migration across international borders of the states. This crisis has been manufactured by political
interests and colonial government states in order to divert attention away from
the root causes of the Human Rights
issues of colonialism that demand true
reform as articulated by the migrant communities themselves.

Before
this situation, we DECLARE:

In
the exercise of the right of self-determination, self-government and
sovereignty of our Original Nations as articulated in the framework of norms,
treaties, national and international conventions, we as Original Nations are in the process of regeneration as Indigenous
Peoples while we strengthening our mutual relationships at the continental
level in order to put a halt to the false economic development schemes being
imposed upon our territories without free, prior and informed consent. Today, in the fertile soil of the Maya
Nations, we plant the seed of the Council of the United Nations of the Original Nations of Abya Yala.

We
denounce the lack of legitimacy of the representation of self-appointed indigenous
peoples or those appointed by successive governments states who do not
represent the legitimate demands of our peoples as in the case of the upcoming
"World Conference on Indigenous Peoples" which is nothing more than a plenary assembly of the UN
member states. We demand that these
governments instead comply with the relevant international covenants and
treaties in full recognition, respect,
and protection of the rights of Indigenous Peoples. Likewise, we reject the representation of the
Central American Indigenous Council (CICA) because they do not represent us as
Indigenous Peoples, instead they represent the interests of successive national
governments and oligarchies. We demand
an audit of the investment of the funds allocated to this institution on behalf
of our Indigenous Peoples.

The
mechanisms of Indigenous representation underwritten by the government states
of North, Central and South America are illegal and illegitimate because they
were not elected by our indigenous peoples or Original Nations according to our
laws, so their opinions do not have our support and consent, such as the case of
the Central American Indigenous Council (CICA).
As Indigenous Peoples we engaged are in the reconstitution of our original
nationalities therefore we shall decide for ourselves the representation of our
delegations as Original Nations.

We
add our support and solidarity with the decision of the North American Indigenous Peoples Caucus (NAIPC) at the continental
level of Abya Yala, Turtle Island and
will not participate in the
"World Conference of Indigenous Peoples" because this initiative does
not represent the legitimate interests of our Indigenous Peoples and Original Nations,
but the discriminatory and racist interests of the states and multi-national corporations. We demand that the international community comply
fully with the international conventions and treaties in recognition, respect,
and protection of the rights of indigenous peoples.

We demand of the colonial government
states of the Americas not to unjustly criminalize
the humanitarian crisis that has led to the migration of our relatives north towards
the USA. The international borders of
the colonial states are racist impositions of the illegal colonization of Abya Yala. As Original Nations, we Indigenous Peoples are
free to traverse through our ancestral territories as Indigenous Peoples and
Nations. We do not acknowledge or
submit to the false international borders of the states that have been imposed
by colonialism.We
welcome the fruit of the efforts of our relatives from El Salvador for
achieving constitutional recognition for Indigenous Peoples and join with them
in calling for the national government of the state and the present
administration to ratify ILO Convention 169 and other conventions on Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

We
condemn the policy of the government of Brazil of dismantling the
constitutional rights of the Indigenous Peoples to impede the process of territorial demarcation, and the
reopening of cases of demarcation already granted, in order to encourage private
landowners and transnational mining companies and hydroelectric dams with the
intent of imposing these projects on Indigenous Peoples' territories in
violation of the right of free, prior
and informed consent.

Finally
we join the call from the V Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities of Abya Yala in calling upon Pope
Francis and the Vatican State to address the issues of violation of our Human Rights,
particularly the right of Self-Determination
of Indigenous Peoples, in order to institute collective corrective measures
in rejection of the Doctrine of Discovery,
since this doctrine continues to serve as a mantle of camouflage that upholds and
immorally legitimizes the continuing colonization and neo-colonization of our Indigenous
Peoples and the territories of our Original Nations.

In addressing this call for consultation by the US State Department
regarding hearings that the US government is obligated to conduct in order to
uphold the standards of International Human Rights laws, policies and
practices, we begin with a general comment:

As Indigenous Peoples who do not subscribe to US status as
federally recognized tribes, we stand with the position of the Oglala Lakota
Nation submitted to the 13th session of the United Nations Permanent
Forum on Indigenous Issues (May 2014):

“The Oglala Lakota Nation further rejects the
assertions of the United States government, as stated in its announcement that
the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples calls for “a distinct
international concept of self-determination specific to indigenous
peoples.” The Oglala Lakota Nation
rejects the fabricated claim of the United States that the Declaration is
intended “to promote the development of a concept of self-determination for
indigenous peoples that is different from the existing right of self-determination
in international law.”

Subsequently, while the US government accurately reports in
their 2010 report to the UN Human Rights Council that by virtue of their status as sovereigns that pre-date the federal Union, as well as subsequent
treaties, statutes, executive orders, and judicial decisions, Indian tribes are
recognized as political entities with inherent powers of self government, we
clarify now that the designation of “tribes” while consistent with US Federal
Indian Law, does not that accurately describe the pre-existing sovereignties of
the Nations of Indigenous Peoples of
Abya Yala [the Americas], nor our international
and intercontinental Confederations that not only precede European American
colonial governments, but still today continue to exercise our inherent Human
Rights as Indigenous Peoples, in spite of US government policies and the
imposition of international borders of the states.

Universal Periodic Review
Recommendations

1. CIVIL
RIGHTS, ETHNIC, AND RACIAL DISCRIMINATION

Statement:

While
the US government’s role in the defense of Civil Rights in the state of Arizona
has been the focus of litigation in the case of AZ SB1070 specifically, and the subsequent appointment of a US
federal marshal in the case of Melendres
v. Arpaio, neither instance has identified the violations of Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples as migrant workers with their families as
is articulated in Convention 169 of
the International Labor Organization,
a subsidiary body of the UN system. Designation of categories of “racial profiling” identified for
redress in both cases, excludes Indigenous Peoples and only provides relief for
categories “Latinos” as litigants, a blatant act of systemic discrimination by the US domestic legal system in denial
of the principles and standards of the UN
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

8. THE
ENVIRONMENT

Statement:Our inherent
Human Rights as Nations of Indigenous Peoples are founded in the reality of our
nationhood and collective responsibility as children of Mother Earth, and respect
for the Territorial Integrity of Mother Earth. The position of the US government on this
issue of climate change, global warming and climate chaos is an unacceptable
and flagrant denial of responsibility as a mass consumer society before the
natural world and future generations which constitutes complicity in the crime
of TERRACIDE.

10. TREATIES
AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISMS

Statement:

As Indigenous
Peoples, equal to all other peoples,
our children must also be acknowledged, respected and protected as equals in
Human Rights, most importantly the Right of Self Determination. We call upon the US government to uphold the
principles and standards articulated in the United
Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and in full responsibility for
the Human Rights of the Future Generations,
we call for recognition of the Human Rights of the refugee children arriving at
the US-Mexico border as refugees of the illegal
colonization of Abya Yala [the Americas] beginning on October 12, 1492 with
the Doctrine of Discovery and with complicity
by subsequent US government administrations under the premise of the Monroe Doctrine (1823) by military
intervention and trade polices that make the US government a responsible party
for the extreme violence driving the mass migration of children, youth, and
families from the Central American countries of Honduras, El Salvador, and
Guatemala.

In the same regard, in defense of the
Human Rights of all children, we denounce the complicity of the US government in contracting with the government
of the Zionist apartheid state of
Israel to supply armaments being used at this moment to massacre the civilian
population of Palestinians in Gaza, including an unbearable number of children
as victims of state sponsored genocide.